Trump admin’s coal investments assist plants with repeated violations

At least three coal plants have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations. [...]

The Next Solar Eclipse Is Delivering a Rare Treat: Totality at Sunset

The only thing cooler than an eclipse or a sunset is when both happen at once. [...]

Generative AI Is Changing How Scientific Ideas Begin

For most of modern science, the first stages of a research idea were largely invisible. A researcher noticed an anomaly, connected two concepts, questioned an established assumption, or identified a g [...]

3 People Have Gotten Cancer-Detecting Implants in Their Brains

Coherence Neuro has started testing a brain-computer interface that could one day use electrical stimulation to prevent tumors from growing. [...]

25 books that shifted how the world thinks about power, science, and the self

From Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" to Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex," these are the books whose arguments entered the world and changed it — permanently an [...]

Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase

Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates. [...]

Even the Internet’s Favorite Pool Guy Doesn’t Know How to Fix the Reflecting Pool

Algae blooms, peeling paint, and a host of fixes from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubblers have made it hard to diagnose what's wrong with the Reflecting Pool, let alone how to clean up the mess. [...]

The ‘Parasite of Parasites’ Has Been Discovered in the Tropical Forests of Borneo

A newly identified species of fungus attacks the famous “zombie mushrooms” that control ants. [...]

US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit

Climate.us has now restored everything taken down by the government. [...]